People watch as the convoy of hearses arrives at the Korporaal van Oudheusdenkazerne in Hilversum on July 26, 2014. Downed flight MH17 has claimed another victim in a 93-year-old man who succumbed to the "indescribable grief" of losing his daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren in the crash, family have said. -- PHOTO: AFP

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Downed flight MH17 has claimed another victim in a 93-year-old man who succumbed to the "indescribable grief" of losing his daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren in the crash, family have said.

Mr Hendrik (Henk) Palm, from the northern Dutch town of Roden, died "after the indescribable grief of losing his daughter, Erla (Palm), son-in-law Rob (van der Linde) and grandchildren Merel and Mark" in the Malaysia Airlines crash, family members said in a death notice carried by De Stentor regional newspaper.

The notice, to be found on a link from the paper's website, said Mr Palm died on Tuesday, five days after the crash that claimed the lives of 298 people including 193 Dutch citizens.

Signed by the families Palm and Bruggeman, the name of the patriarch's deceased wife, the notice also paid tribute "in loving memory" to the family of four who died when the plane was shot down over conflict-torn east Ukraine.

Dutch newspapers have reported that the four, also from Roden, were on their way to Malaysia for a holiday.